New Beach House is boring, relistened to Czarface and I feel the exact same way about it. Deck lost all of his charisma with age and the production is definitely on some boom bap revivalist shit only with random guitar riffs layered over it.

I was thoroughly impressed by how he brought the worlds of ambient and house together in this new and interesting way. In a way he's treading over territory mined by like Pantha Du Prince and Luomo,

but with these two tracks being one album, there seems to be a stronger conceptual focus on the structure of the tracks. The 20 minute first track being repetitious with its sample (despite having some really well structured pauses and interludes, coming just at the right time), and the second track opening with wooshing ambience and textures. It's quite beautiful how it begins, and then the second half of Evening being these great percussion rhythms.

The two tracks have enough meat on them that I can digest their changes and subtleties for a while, they're both incredibly detailed and have enormous replay value for me.

I feel it's all up a really good release, and gives me more than enough to chew on before Four Tet decides to release something again.

This record is much less of a conventional release, more of a meditation, but I feel he's edging closer to someone like Brian Eno or Steve Reich in how he's composed these tracks, particularly Morning.

The more I listen I feel they're less like DJ mixes, these tracks are composed very well, they're just intended to be meditative and offer solace of some kind.

I admittedly didn't really care for it, unfortunately. I'll probably listen to it again tho, i feel like Kieran is going in a direction with his last few projects that for some reason is harder for me to jive with compared to his 2000s-2010 work